Bonne Bouches from the video:

Introverts have been following social distancing since forever.

We support Fries over Guys kinda feminism only.

Has happened to the best of us.

In her video – Feminism, Sati Aur Nange Log, Neetu Bhardwaj also explains the difference between ‘Sati’ and ‘Jauhar’ girls, moving on to telling us why she prefers being classist but not casteist.

Though Neetu Bhardwaj presents herself on stage with a poker-faced expression, but her content graced the faces of audience with a bout of hyperventilated laughter. We’d love to see her interacting with audience, for we feel that is going be a laugh riot!

Watch the full video here:

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What are you waiting for? Get set to lighten up your mood and grin widely.

Amazon Funnies (Amazon Prime Video)

What better than having 14 stand-up comics working together to entertain you and spread some laughter? Amazon added a cherry on top of the cake of festivities with Amazon Funnies – Prime Day Special.  It featured a stellar line-up of 14 comedians – Sumit Sourav, Karthik Kumar, Aishwarya Mohanraj, Shreeja Chaturvedi, Nishant Tanwar, Neeti Palta, Sapan Verma, Sumukhi Suresh, Gaurav Kapoor, Urooj Ashfaq, Rahul Subramanian, Nishant Suri, Rahul Dua, and Anubhav Singh Bassi – who performed a 10-minute set every hour. They covered everything from movies to breakups, to gymming and wedding. If you haven’t watched it yet, you are missing the miniature doses of happiness.

Vir Das for India (Netflix)

After the release of two comedy specials on Netflix – Losing It and Abroad Understanding, Vir Das came up with another special ‘Vir Das for India’ early this year. The special talks about his life spent growing up in India, mentioning India’s favourite Parle G, Old Monk and chyawanprash. What’s amazing about this man is, he finds the funny side about everyday things that make us truly Indian. This special is truly special. Why? Because it is filled with some hearty laughs and nostalgia.

Yours Sincerely, Kanan Gill (Netflix)

This show is all about Kanan Gill revisiting his 15-year-old self by the means of a letter that he wrote to himself – the older-Kanan, when he was 15. He goes through the letter which included a list of goals; he evaluates his achievement count and how far he has come in life. The tone Kanan maintains throughout is certainly a poignant one, but his subtle and witty comments rolled into one leaves everyone rolling with laughter.

Comicstaan (Amazon Prime Video)

Comicstaan, both Season 1 and 2 are the reality shows that feature aspiring comics – most of them are widely recognised now. So, Comicstaan showcases the talent of budding comedians who are groomed under the guidance of Kaneez Surka, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Kanan Gill, Kenny Sebastian, Abish Mathew, Sumukhi Suresh, Zakir Khan, Neeti Patla and Urooj Ashfaq. Their comic timing and extra-ordinary sets will leave you splits. What’s more? You also get to these contestants rehearse for their shows, yes, the behind the scenes part, and how they structure a perfect laughter-inducing set.

Pushpavalli (Amazon Prime Video)

Are you looking for a comedy show and not really a stand-up special? Then Pushpavalli, both Season 1 and 2 are your go-to options. Starring Sumukhi Suresh, Pushapavalli is the story of a girl who is obsessed with a boy she has never dated. The show is laced with witty one-liners and relatable situations which will plaster a smile on your face. Sumukhi’s impeccable comic timing steals the show and she delivers a performance to remember. If you haven’t watched it yet, this show could offer you some light-hearted laughter.

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Varun Grover was just another lyricist in the industry, not much known, till 2015. But in 2015, he won the award for Best Lyricist at the 63rd National Film Awards for his song Moh Moh Ke Dhaage from the movie Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

The very same year, his film Masaan released which fetched him national and international recognition. Varun wrote the song ‘Tu Kisi Rail Si Guzarti Hai’ for the movie.

Who doesn’t know Gangs of Wasseypur! Varun, in collaboration with Piyush Mishra bestowed upon us those cult tracks of Gangs of Wasseypur 1, and was the sole lyricist for Gangs of Wasseypur 2.

He has also written the song Panchi Ud Gaya for Newton, and worked on the songs of Udta Punjab with lyricist Shelle.

Varun – The Script Writer

Varun scripted the movie Masaan and even received a 5-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

He has also written various shows, such as the Netflix Special ‘Sacred Games’ and The Great Indian Comedy Challenge.

Varun – The Stand-up Comic

In early 2018, Varun’s stand-up bit on Padmaavat left the audience laughing out loud. His YouTube video witnessed 5.6 million views. It was crystal clear that the section of society which was not able to make sense out of the whole controversy was able to relate and find reason in his comical voice.

Time and again, Varun Grover has proved that not only does he outshine every medium of expression, but his content is worthy too.

Being one of the writers on the show, The Great Indian Comedy Challenge, Varun has always been a part of the Indian stand-up comedy circuit too.

He is known to take on serious issues, give them a funny twist and not sound insensitive at all. After all, how many comedians on the circuit can do that? Varun recently started the Azaadi tour with two other prolific talents – Rahul Ram and Sanjay Rajoura wherein they highlight what’s wrong with the nation and talk about socio-political issues in part stand-up comedy, part musical and part diatribe.

Varun Grover is an IITian, Writer, Comic, Award-Winning Lyricist – a man of many talents and the kind of kid your parents always wanted. His brilliance not only makes us want to see more of him, but it inspires us too!

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Here are the 10 times when stand-up comics made 2019 bearable.

1. Surviving at Parle-G, Genius!

Abijit Ganguly on throws some light on millennial couples who sure are living their life in style, but miserably failing at basic things, like cooking.

2. Dog parents are the cutest

Well, not! Aakash Gupta talks about how parents still tend to accept the fault of their kids, Dog Parents never. It is never their doggo at fault, but you.

3. On over-confident Indian bachelors

Nishant Suri knows the exact reason why Indian bachelors are different than bachelors of other countries. It’s their over-confidence that makes them distinct.

4. A woman buying condoms. Wait, what?

Neeti Palta talks about a country that cannot say the word condom, and the way people react to this unusual sight of women buying condoms in India.

5. True happiness lies in small-small things

Rahul Dua tells how we uselessly spend our life looking for sources of happiness, while true happiness lies in the little things.

6. Men and consent rarely go together

Sanjay Rajoura talks in his usual sarcastic tone about Indian men’s lack of understanding regarding the concept of consent.

7. On Information that makes no difference to our lives

Abhishek Upmanyu talks about the two types of information, one that impacts our life, another that is purely ‘gyaan’ and we can live without it.

8. Unique talent of Mallu uncles unveiled

Kenny Sebastian on ‘Everything Mallu’ tells us something unique about Mallu uncles, which we feel fits aptly for almost all uncles.

9. The spells that mums cast

Biswa Kalyan Rath in his stand-up special ‘Sushi’ talks about superpowers that Indian moms have such as finding hidden items or the items that hid themselves so that you cannot find them.

10. The forever overflowing fridges of Indians

Azeem Banattawala shares how refrigerator of an Indian household has everything under the sun, including the tissue papers from Dominos. However, after a week of sincerity, the rules about where to keep what are somewhat relaxed.

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Humour Sapiens got into a Tête-à-Tête with Harsh Gujral. Read more about the boy next door here!

1. How did you develop interest in stand-up comedy? What was your first stage experience like?

Comedy always interested me. During school too, I was one of the mischievous kids and made my friends laugh. When I first visited London; yes, I got a chance to stay there for a year *insert ahem ahem*. It was there that I saw stand-up comedy live for the first time. That made me sit up and look for comedy videos, and it was the videos of Jeeveshu bhai that I saw first. Instantly, I marked him an email and I told him that I was keen on performing with him. To which he responded saying, “write your comedy material and start performing at open mics to start with.” When I searched for places that host open mics, Canvas Laugh Club came up and I looked more about it. After calling them up, I got to know what open mic really was. But I didn’t start immediately. I went to watch an open mic and checked out how was it done. It was an entirely different ambiance, I realised. Completely baffling. I waited for a week, wrote content and then performed at an open mic. Now you know how talented I am. I had to Win and I Won. *insert another ahem ahem* As I won that open mic, my first open mic, it gave me some confidence that yes, I can do this and maybe this was something I always wanted to do. So, yea, I was always interested in comedy, but Canvas gave me a platform to kickstart this as a career.

My first stage experience was mind-blowing. Any and every dirty joke I could think of, I did them all in under 4 mins, and Delhi audience was having a great time, undoubtedly! They thoroughly enjoyed the non-veg kind of jokes and were applauding endlessly. It left me wondering…what’s the matter with these guys. But I was enjoying too.

I still have that snippet video of my first performence that I got filmed secretly. It wasn’t that great in comparison to how I perform now. But that’s how a stage works. The more you perform, the better to become. But all in all, it was a great experience.

2. How has the journey been so far? Were there any challenges that you had to face?

Up till now, my journey has been quite satisfactory. And I am very thankful to God almighty for it. I used to watch other artists’ videos on YouTube and wondered how those people could be so talented and creative to carry out such a difficult art form in front of so many people. Now that I share stage with them, I feel happy about how far I have come. It has been great till now and if god willing, it will be such in future too!

If I talk about challenges, in my opinion stand-up is an individual challenge that you face every time you get on to that stage to perform. You have to create jokes and keep the audience entertained. Though there are phases when you can’t think of anything and you begin to feel that it is over, but it is not! No one helps you in that moment and says, “okay buddy, I can perform on your behalf.” You have to pull yourself together and keep the show going. It’s a continuous challenge for you; an everyday challenge. You fall back, you lose, you get up and try again. Just keep doing your bit, things will automatically fall into place.

3. What was the reaction of your family when they got to know about your encounter with stand-up comedy?

My parents were not able to understand initially as to what I was actually doing. Whenever I told them I am going to perform at an open mic, they seemed clueless about it. Eventually, they understood that I perform on stage and do comedy. But weren’t quite sure as to what do I do. They felt, I go and perform everyday but never come back with any money. This was an alien concept to them.

It was quite funny that they didn’t understand that why did they have to send me money while I was in college and even when I was working.

My mom used to ask me every day after shows if I got some money, and when I responded saying that I had to spend a few hundred, she used to laugh at me saying, “you are the first comic who pays to perform.” Things were different back then; she had a hard time understanding the concept of open mics. The situation is different now, she feels better. Earlier when I used to say, I will quit my job, they discouraged saying, “you shouldn’t let go off a fixed monthly salary amount.” But now parents are happy and supportive of what I am doing. Now they say, “do whatever you love. Don’t do job if you don’t like.” Things have changed with time.

4. Any take on regional comedy?

Regional comedy is definitely good for India, because most of us do comedy in Hindi and can cater to a wide set of audience pan India. But regional comedy allows people to have references from their colloquial language in the jokes, and that immediately becomes a connecting factor. Regional comedy has a bright future. Slowly you will see people performing more and more in their local dialects. But I will still be doing Hindi comedy. Whenever anyone asks me to even say a punch in English, I say no! But I don’t deny, regional comedy is good for the scene, good for the art form. When people will do regional comedy, more people will get attracted to this art form, more audience will be seen appreciating it.

5. Any experience with annoying audience member?

The audience cannot really annoy you if you are annoying enough, right? When it comes to my shows, I am more annoying than the people who come to see my shows. I try my best that none of them leaves the premises alive.

See, the logic is simple, if they cannot breathe, they cannot annoy! Up till now, I have been pretty successful in sucking up the last straw of life in them.

But it happens. Like, in one of the shows I did for doctors, really aged doctors – the kind who would need doctors to accompany them to ensure their well-being. It was hard to make them understand any kind of jokes.

One of the aged doctors, started walking, real slow, and kept walking until he reached me. I was oblivious to the fact that the tortoise had me as the target. He came towards me, snatched my mic and said, “this pretention of jokes and mimicry must end right now. Now I will tell the jokes.” (Ye chutkule sunaane ka jo dhong kiya jaa raha hai, usey abhi samapt kiya jaye. Ab hum chutkule sunayenge.) I was stunned. The next thing he did left me speechless…

He took his phone out from his pocket and started reading whatsapp forwards. It wasn’t that he memorised those jokes. If he’d done that, I would have let him tell jokes. But you cannot really mess with oldies. They are the kings in their own sweet world. They can do whatever they wish.

So, yes, apart from this, there has hardly been a case where anyone other than me has been so annoying, be it at school, college or office. I take pride in it.

6. Any bombing moment you’d like to share?

Bombing is inevitable. Everyone bombs.

By the blessing of the god, there have been extremely insignificant bombing moments in my life. There hasn’t been any such moment where I destroyed my act beyond repair. So, when the jokes aren’t working, I switch to talking to the audience. Because I know, once I talk, I will find something to joke about from it and then return to my original pace and carry on with jokes from there on. There are times when jokes fall flat, but I manage then! Isn’t that what we call experience?

The day you try everything and attempts to make them laugh by hook or crook are not working…understand that day…It’s the audience that’s bad.

7. Who is your favourite comic?

My favourite comic from India has to be Kapil Sharma. When I used to see him perform on TV and say certain lines, I realised, some of the lines were what I had already used in my life, and now I saw him saying those on TV which people seemed to like. I was able to relate and found that my style is similar to his. I feel he is the legend in the TV comedy scene.

When it comes to YouTube and other stand-up comics in the scene, I really like Anubhav Bassi. We have performed together, and I have seen him become a star from the start of his journey. When you see someone rise up, their journey, you appreciate their efforts even more. I like other comics too…I like Zakir Khan. Recently, I shared the stage with him and realised that this man was meant to be a success.

I like myself too, I like my comedy as well. “Mai apna favourite hun” This is the lesson I have learnt from girls. You should better be your favourite, don’t care if anyone else likes you or not.

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He starts with getting himself teleported to 1972, when he was just a foetus and describes how his parents must have felt had he suddenly landed as a full-grown man in that year. Anshu talks about passion – which is something you do when you find the grass greener on the other side. He mentions how the achievements these days are mostly about coming up with new Instagram filters.

Anshu ends with a very strong message of respecting your parents. Respecting, not by creating a facebook account for them; by not getting them on facebook. Respect them, but offline!

Highlights of the video:

• When mom has an Ekta Kapoor show moment for a second.

• We came out with 2 new dog filters.

• Mom vs Me/We

There are more funny instances from his life, such as his father treating facebook like a family whatsapp group, and his mother finding a bizarre way to include herself in his facebook conversations.

Check out the complete 1972 video and see the magic Anshu Mor once again weaves magic!

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In his recent video, Parent’s Expectations, Adesh talks about how parents do something because they have to and then expect us to be obligated for it. He mentions how giving him food, clothes and education is really appreciable, but wasn’t required.

Now his concern is that his parents expect that he reciprocates by getting them good clothes and taking them to nice places. But what they should understand is, it should then be applicable to all the things they did for him as a child – including waking him up at 6 am.

Adesh further adds that once he was punished for stealing 2 rupees by having to stay locked up in his room, without internet. Now he gets punished when parents don’t lock him up, they ask him to sit in front of him. Now that’s the real Punishment! Watch this video to know the kind of tactics he uses to keep his father from checking his phone.

He also reminds how the stories when we were kids were so cute, Dogs and Goats were friends in those.

Kutta aur Bakri baat kar rahe hain…

Bakri: Ek number ka kutta hai tu, apni shaadi mein bhi nahi bulaya.

Kutta: Yaar mai toh bulane wala tha, but meri wife kitni badi Bitch hai.

The funniest bit was when he aptly mentioned how parents these days are so arrogant that they join their names to name their kid. As in, what have you achieved in life after all, that you decided to screw that poor kid’s name and life together. God save him from getting bullied all his life.

There is more to it than just this. Check out the complete video here:

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He starts off with sharing his latest learnings which can prove to be really helpful in your day to day life, such as DAFUQ, IDGAF, etc are internet abbreviations and apparently not some Muslim names. Insightful, isn’t it?

Azeem then moves ahead and shares the rules that people living in Bandra have to follow, and the pressure it brings with it. Jogging regularly and shopping at Nature’s Basket are the essentials if you don’t want t get thrown out of Bandra. The reason why he follows those strict rules is because Bandra is a cool place and it has lots of bakeries Patisseries. It’s like a bakery version of Shashi Tharoor. He highlights how these patisseries have unnecessarily creative yet threatening names, sinful chocolate, devil’s moose, and the likes.

It’s like chocolate is the new tobacco. Soon you’ll see Rahul Dravid in chocolate ads urging people to quit, otherwise you know what happened to Mukesh – Death by chocolate.

Azeem also shares his plight of managing a fridge and how he plays tetris every night trying to fit things in the fridge. But the crux of the matter is, no matter how big a fridge you have, you will always lack space to store things.

While this is a fact, there’s another fact that he makes us aware of…our incapability and unwillingness to throw away the stuff we get from Dominoes, be it oregano,  chili flakes or tissue paper. All kept safely in the second shelf of the fridge, beside expired sauces. How fridging awesome!

You cannot just miss this video. Every second of it will leave you grinning and wondering how does this man do it. Smooth deliveries bowled us over and left us wanting for more!

Check out this complete video here:

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He has contributed to feature films, namely A Gentleman, Farzi, Ranga Half-Pants, Stree, Game Over; web series on Amazon Prime, The Family Man and 2 AM. He has written a novel titled ‘Ranga Half-Pants’.

Here are the best videos from the exceptionally talented Suman Kumar!

Understanding women and the array of emotions that they can experience at a given point of time, psychology, being human like Salman Khan, and on how your child completes you, maybe not the way you would want him to. Check the complete video to know!

Growing older, paracetamol and doctors is a comedy set on how hangover is a constant part of life as you grow old, and if Jesus can really save us. He also mentions how doctors are morbid people who eat upma and talk about how anal sex can cause AIDS. Suman is right in calling it disgusting, the upma! There’s more to it, watch here.

This video is all about funny, small town cricket stories, tambrams, and the right way to taste wine. Watch here.

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Comicstaan Fame Arnav Rao kills it in Media, God & Google

Highlights of the video:

When drunk pig broke into a camp

Audience member requested jokes on Christianity & Islam

On google being the God

There’s more to this! Check out the complete video here:

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